Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-09-16
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Do Nor SUCCEED.


Do Nor SUCCEED.
TINE SPENT IN ArILEss AND UNNEoEs.
sARY TALK-EFFEcT OF WoRRY ON
THE SYSTEM. CARRYING LoAD-.
CHEATING OrnEn PEopLE- Loosr
| ENDS.
You'll excuse inc, I trust, for say
ing so, but I don't see any sense or
any use in your being "overwhelmed
with business" You should not let
anything overwholm you. You're the
worse off for being overwhelmed by
anything. The fact is, more than half
you do and spend your time and
struggle on isn't business Mt all
You'll stand and talk with man for
half an hour when neither of you
have anything to say, and when
you're through you'll suddenly re.
collect that you're too late for your
train or your interviews with some
body else. Then you rush off in a
hurry. You carry hurry with you.
You infect everybody with it you
meet. You carry OH your interviews
in hurry, thinking all tho time of
the next thing you've got to do. You
leave the business concerned in that
interview about half done, because
you were not able to fix or centre
your mind wholly on it. You leave
business with tags and loose ends.-
You are always in fret and worry
because OF the consequences of your
hurried state of mind-nnd you call
this "bHsiness.'
You have "forty things" to think
of and do at once. You shouldn't
have forty things to do at once. You
should have only one thing to do at
once. That's business. You mislay
things. You forget things. You tuck
important papers away in unimpor-
tant and obscure rat holes hardly
conscious of what you're doing. You
lose minutes, hours and strength in
looking for them. You call that bus
mess. All of your mistakes and wor
ries you dignity by tile name of busi-
ness. You get in worry and a hrr
ry and forget where you've laid your
hat, and you call the hunting of that
hat 'business.' Well, it is business.
but it's the wrong kind of business.
You get your thread in tangle in
stead of properly wound ball and
you call the tangle business. You
carry n tangle around with you in
your head and call it business. You
carry your tangle to bed with you.
You think it over and over. The
same old tangle nil night, instead of
sleeping rs you should to get
strength for tomorrow, and you call
that "business." Real business is
making business of sleep when the
time comes to sleep and not going to
work when you should go to sleep.
You've no more business carrying
your work to bed with you than
wood sawyer has to carry his saw and
buck to bed with him.
You're worry and n pressure and
n nuisance at times to. your friends
and those who are trying to be your
friends in always talking about the
load you have to carry in your bust
ness. The less of load business is
to a man the better he does business.
If you're a horse Jockey and it's n
pleasure for you to sell horsos, you'll
sell horses and possibly sell the peo
pie you sell them to. But if it's a
load and worry and an annoyance
for you to soil horses, then you won't
sell many. The more man loves his
work the less of load it is to him
and the better he succeeds in his
work. The thing that's best done is
the thing or act that gives most
pleasure in the doing. A live sales.
man loves to sell goods. Adead sales
man who looks like funeral when
he's selling goods and mourns while
selling them that he must sell them
won't sell many goods. Your idea!
of "business' for the last ten yearzs
has been the borrowing of s1O,OH